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* Smylers <Smylers@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2005-10-01 10:45]: > That's only useful cos you've been conditioned not to expect > dialogue boxes to spot that the directory has changed and to > refresh themselves. I was going to mention something about that, but it’s a whole ’nother can of snakes. Almost all filesystem manipulation APIs are hateful. Using strings to identify files is hateful. So hateful. Not having a notification mechanism so the system can tell apps when something relevant has happened is hateful. (Ideally, filesystem objects would be, well, that – objects, where the API would provide the “M” from MVC, and then you could actually write applications that behave sanely without leaking complexity into every damn freaking line of code that somehow deals with the filesystem.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;There's stuff above here
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